WiGit vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. LionWiki

General Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Version
0.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.2.1
5.1.21
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
Author
Remko Tronçon
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
BSD
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
other
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
free
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Individuals, private, small groups
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Any
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
Git
mod_rewrite (optional)
A common browser
Datastorage WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
Git repositories
None
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4577 ⭐
56 ⭐
8562 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Links WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
No
Extras WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WiGit DokuWiki WackoWiki TiddlyWiki LionWiki
Internal Link
[InternalLink]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
"External link":http://externallink.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
h1. Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
*Bold*
**bold**
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold''
Italics Format
_Italics_
//italics//
//italics//
//italic//
''italics''
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
@monospace@
''monospace''
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
!image.jpg!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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